Brussels protest against UN migration pact turns violent

A protest against a U.N. migration pact turned violent Sunday as some 5,500 people marched in Brussels in a rally organized by Flemish right-wing parties.

The demonstration was in response to the migration pact which was backed by more than 150 countries — including Belgium — at a United Nations conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, last week. The pact caused a rupture within the Belgian government and led to the Flemish nationalist N-VA party leaving Prime Minister Charles Michel’s coalition government.

Police detained around 90 people and used water cannons as well as tear gas as some protesters threw rocks at officers and smashed a window of a European Commission building, De Morgen reported. At one point some of the demonstrators tried to storm the Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters.

Another 1,000 counter-demonstrators also marched to show their opposition to the right-wing protest.

“Thanks to the police services for having again assured today the public order in our beautiful [city],” Mayor Philippe Close said in a tweet.

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François P

Again, Politico prefers to report on a small but violent demonstration but refused to report on a totally peaceful mega-demonstration of 65-75 000 participants two weeks ago. Very low quality journalism.

Posted on 12/16/18 | 10:58 PM CET

Chris Kemble

The worldwide resistance to the UN Migration Pact grows with protests in Alberta and Ottawa. The truth that the pact is a globalist, anti-free speech, open borders mandate is now clear. Sold has non-binding in fact uses ‘obligation’ 80 times and calls immigration ‘desirable’ ‘necessary’ and ‘inevitable.’ Free speech criticism is banned as a hate crime.

It passed at the UN in June 192 to 1 with only the Trump administration voting no. But Monday in Morocco an additional 27 countries refused to sign. Immediately the incoming Brazilian government said it would cancel it on January 1st. Last weekend the leftist Belgium coalition collapsed. In France 11 generals and other defense officials in an open letter accused Emmanuel Macron of treason for signing.

Posted on 12/16/18 | 11:16 PM CET

glasspix 1

Finally people are starting to understand the gravity of their situation, the fact that their heritage and sovereignty had been taken away from them by the very people who were meant to protect it. They are being chased by mounted police, water-cannonned and teargassed for raising their voices against the nihilistic politics of resentment represented by the current majority in the European Commission, not to mention the migrant obsessed Charles Michel government. Nothing can stand in the way of mass migration, if it does, we’ll brand it as fascist and use police truncheons on them.

Posted on 12/16/18 | 11:24 PM CET

maciek maciek

Western Europeans are waking up from marxists’ and globalists’ induced somnambulant dream of post-politics and PC.
Next year EP elections must bring EU healing.
Marxists/cultural marxists/globalists/fake conservatists must get a boot.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 12:23 AM CET

Larry Darrell

Whites, paid by DavosMan, beating and whipping and gassing other whites because they refuse to accept invasion by religion-of-peace.
This will not end well for DavosMan.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 12:38 AM CET

Jan Winter

I think Belgium should be kicked out of Schengen. Their failure to contain extremism of the do called religion of peace makes them a security liability for the whole Europe.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 12:39 AM CET

EU doublestandards

The truth is that the word ‘refugee’ is slowly being replaced by the word ‘migrant’ – not just in the world’s press and mainstream media – but now in ‘non-binding’ pacts drawn up in the United Nations. It’s sole purpose, as many of you are coming to realise, is to break down the concept of sanctuary and asylum for genuine refugees as a moral and justified act of enlightened democracies – and replace it with an obligation to accept migrants – whether they are escaping persecution – or simply a lack of opportunity in their native countries. Sadly, in many ways we have only ourselves to blame. We look down on our working classes and fail to value the hard and thankless work that they do.

Every year, more of our children are encouraged to go to university, often times to study pointless degrees that don’t lead to any meaningful employment, instead of taking apprenticeships or training in manual but skilled and vital jobs increasingly looked down on as less ‘worthy’. Consequently our industries and business sectors now face shortages of young people willing to do hard work – unless of course they can get access to a limitless supply of people willing to do the kinds of jobs we discourage our own children from doing these days. The sad truth is it doesn’t matter how much we protest against this UN pact, or any other similar initiative. Unless we re-incentivise our youth, unless we rebalance our attitude towards blue-collar workers and unless we wake up to and place more value once again in the work that they do in our societies, then the social contract that underpins our democracies will never be the same again.

It is when that essential contract is broken that we see extremism rise. It has happened before, and it is happening again. You’d have though we would have learned by now – you cannot keep making the same mistakes and expect a different outcome.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 12:54 AM CET

Larry Darrell

Merkel and the other leftists are determined to subject us to rule by the religion-of-peace. I fear that the matter will only be resolved by Madame Guillotine.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 1:10 AM CET

Ian Beaumont

EU doublestandards
Very good post

Posted on 12/17/18 | 1:58 AM CET

contango one

@ Larry Darrell

first we’re gonna try madame polling booth, and we’ll see

Posted on 12/17/18 | 8:15 AM CET

arnuz arnuz

I’m sure you are sending your kids to apprenticeship, yep.

The double standards are only yours.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 9:05 AM CET

EU doublestandards

@arnuz arnuz

I don’t have any children. But I did do an apprenticeship. I have quite a few friends who went to university and spent years afterwards trying to find work and failing because they studied pointless degrees. I meanwhile knuckled down and forged a career through on-the-job training.

And to answer your question: if I ever did have children, I would most certainly encourage them to treat learning a trade as something just as viable and career-shaping, as going to university to doss around for four years and then emerging with a piece of paper that may or may not be of any interest whatsoever to potential employers.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 11:43 AM CET

florin silberman

@ EU dublestandards,
All your points are well taken but you omitted one important component of today’s problems when you say “…unless we rebalance our attitude towards blue-collar workers and unless we wake up to and place more value once again in the work that they do…” . The problem needing a solution is the unwillingness of people to do the work, hard work.
In order to buy internal peace, our governments have created welfare systems that are so rewarding to the idle that the incentive to precisely do the work that needs to be done has disappeared from their ranks. It is more convenient to do nothing and expect the safely arriving check. Meantime migrants are coming in and do the required work perpetuating unemployment among the locals because the problem grows with time. This is profitable to all. Employers being able to pay lower wages, people on welfare being able to continue enjoying life on the government’s expense and poor migrants being able to earn a modest living. Isn’t that an unbeatable gain, gain, gain arrangement? How do you go against so many interests?

Posted on 12/17/18 | 4:27 PM CET

Rich Kroll

The invaders (economic refugees) need to stay in their own countries and fix their problems at home. Globalism is a sickness that is damaging the west.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 6:00 PM CET

Tom Cullem

The agreement is fortunately nonbinding. Countries sign it to look good. But given Belgian’s blossoming problems with radicalisation due to taking Saudi money that comes with new mosques and their hand-picked Wahhabist extremist preacher, the Belgians would be fools to bring in any more.

A safe, legal road to migration into Europe. Translation: continued ethnic replacement.

Posted on 12/17/18 | 6:26 PM CET

Henk Crop

Tonight Vice-President Timmermans was on TV. President Juncker was probaly hiding in the Berlaymont building, as usual.
He understood the protesters were angry. But his Commission was not to blame. The National Leaders were because they did not want to implement the Plans of the Commission.
Not a word about the signing an UN Pact that promotes migration and wants to curtail freedom of the press ( a fundamental right in a Democracy).
There can be no further progress in the EU as long as these two loosers have not packed their bags.